Perhaps for 2014 home games they could replace the Sox history pre-game video with a series of Ventura press conference snippets, thereby spreading boredom to the visitors' dugout as well as our own, and thus evening things out a bit.

No wonder the whole damn team has been sleepwalking through this season---they're bored!

But seriously, I do not believe Ventura is a good leader and we have no players who fill that role either. I wonder what the "chemistry" is like in the Sox clubhouse? It must be excruciating to come to work everyday. That needs to change, whether that means firing Robin or picking up some vocal leaders through free agency, but something drastic needs to happen.